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“Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well." Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to his daughter) ~ American Founding Father ~ 1743 - 1826)

Since there are over ten ways to make a noun plural in German, beginning students need to be familiar with how to read a dictionary entry.

This activity introduces students to:

* How a German-English bilingual dictionary is set up
* How to read the entry and determine the plural of nouns
* How to understand compound nouns.

You get:

1. An 11-page overhead in English explaining how to determine the plural of a word both in an online dictionary and a paper dictionary

2. A 46-question worksheet to do using online dictionary sources ~ 5 different online dictionaries are used

This activity can be split up over two days if desired.

3. An answer key for the online activity

4. A 2-page homework assignment to be done after the in-class online activity

5. An answer key for the homework assignment

6. A 24-question activity using paper German-English dictionaries if you should have a classroom set and want to use it

7. An answer key to the paper dictionary activity.

Help your students develop in German one of the first skills they learned in English ~ how to use a dictionary.

Everything here is classroom-ready to make your job easy. (31 pages)

* EXPANSION ACTIVITY FOR GERMAN CLASS *

Some delightful videos have been done by Andrew Bossom, an Englishman living in Germany. He has a refreshing and fun way of looking at things, such as ~

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* OF SPECIAL NOTE *
I have created my products as Word documents because that is how I use them. They are unlocked so teachers can change vocabulary words or modify things if they wish.

If you prefer a different format for the overhead, below are some suggestions, however the pictures may have to be inserted separately.

To Make A Slide Show In ActivInspire
If you use ActivInspire, you can save the Word document as a pdf (this is easily done with the newer versions of Word), then you can simply import the pdf to ActivInspire and have a document for that format.

To Make A Slide Show In PowerPoint
If you prefer to use the PowerPoint format, you can easily convert a Word document to a PowerPoint.

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